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It Is Thus Necessary That The Individual Should Finally Come To Realize That His Own Ego Is Of No Importance In Comparison With The Existence Of The Nation, That The Position Of The Individual Is Conditioned Solely By The Interests Of The Nation As A Whole.
-Adolf Hitler
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It Is Thus Necessary

Adolf Hitler
It Is Thus Necessary That The Individual Should Finally Come To Realize That His Own Ego Is Of No Importance In Comparison With The Existence Of The Nation, That The Position Of The Individual Is Conditioned Solely By The Interests Of The Nation As A Whole.
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The More Abstractly Correct And Hence Powerful This Idea Will Be, The More Impossible Remains Its Complete Fulfillment As Long As It Continues To Depend On Human Beings... If This Were Not So, The Founders Of Religion Could Not Be Counted Among The Greatest Men Of This Earth... In Its Workings, Even The Religion Of Love Is Only The Weak Reflection Of The Will Of Its Exalted Founder; Its Significance, However, Lies In The Direction Which It Attempted To Give To A Universal Human Development Of Culture, Ethics, And Morality.
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I Am Beginning With The Young. We Older Ones Are Used Up. Yes, We Are Old Already. We Are Rotten To The Marrow. We Have No Unrestrained Instincts Left. We Are Cowardly And Sentimental. We Are Bearing The Burden Of A Humiliating Past, And Have In Our Blood The Dull Recollection Of Serfdom And Servility. But My Magnificent Youngsters! Are There Finer Ones Anywhere In The World? Look At These Young Men And Boys! What Material! With Them, I Can Make A New World.
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If Nature Does Not Wish That Weaker Individuals Should Mate With The Stronger, She Wishes Even Less That A Superior Race Should Intermingle With An Inferior One; Because In Such A Case All Her Efforts, Throughout Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years, To Establish An Evolutionary Higher Stage Of Being, May Thus Be Rendered Futile.
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Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.
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When Folk Have Set Before Them A True Purpose And Then Pursue It Unmoved With Bravery And Courage, When They Withstand With A Strong Heart Every Trial Which Heaven Sends Upon Them, Then One Day At The Last Almighty Providence Will Yet Grant Them The Fruits Of Their Struggle And Of Their Sacrifices. For God Has Never Abandoned Any Man Upon This Earth Unless He Has First Abandoned Himself.
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I Have Issued The Command, And I'll Have Anybody Who Utters But One Word Of Criticism Executed By A Firing Squad, That Our War Aim Does Not Consist In Reaching Certain Lines, But In The Physical Destruction Of The Enemy. Accordingly, I Have Placed My Death's-head Formation In Readiness, For The Present Only In The East, With Orders To Them To Send To Death Mercilessly And Without Compassion, Men, Women, And Children Of Polish Derivation And Language. Only Thus Shall We Gain The Living Space Which We Need. Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Annihilation Of The Armenians?
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When I Was A Worker I Busied Myself With Socialist Or, If You Like, Marxist Literature.
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The Church Has Realized That Anything And Everything Can Be Built Up On A Document Of That Sort, No Matter How Contradictory Or Irreconcilable With It. The Faithful Will Swallow It Whole, So Long As Logical Reasoning Is Never Allowed To Be Brought To Bear On It.
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Long
Every Year A Thousand Kilometers Of Motor-roads Will Be Opened Until The Greatest Work In The History Of Mankind Is Completed.
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The American President Increasingly Used His Influence To Create Conflicts, Intensify Existing Conflicts, And, Above All, To Keep Conflicts From Being Resolved Peacefully. For Years This Man Looked For A Dispute Anywhere In The World, But Preferably In Europe, That He Could Use To Create Political Entanglements With American Economic Obligations To One Of The Contending Sides, Which Would Then Steadily Involve America In The Conflict And Thus Divert Attention From His Own Confused Domestic Economic Policies.
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National Socialism Is What Marxism Might Have Been If It Could Have Broken Its Absurd And Artificial Ties With A Democratic Order.
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The National Government Sees In Both Christian Denominations The Most Important Factor For The Maintenance Of Our Society.
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The Conviction Of The Justification Of Using Even The Most Brutal Weapons Is Always Dependent On The Presence Of A Fanatical Belief In The Necessity Of The Victory Of A Revolutionary New Order On This Globe.
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The Only Preventative Measure One Can Take Is To Live Irregularly.
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Expression
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A Folkish State Must Therefore Begin By Raising Marriage From The Level Of A Continuous Defilement Of The Race, And Give It The Consecration Of An Institution Which Is Called Upon To Produce Images Of The Lord And Not Monstrosities Halfway Between Man And Ape.
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A Man Does Not Die For Something Which He Himself Does Not Believe In.
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Men
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One Should Guard Against Believing The Great Masses To Be More Stupid Than They Actually Are.
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The Attack Against Dogmas As Such, Therefore, Strongly Resembles The Struggle Against The General Legal Foundations Of A State, And , As The Latter Would End In A Total Anarchy Of The State, The Former Would End In A Worthless Religious Nihilism.
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People Are More Likely To Believe A Big Lie Than A Small One.
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People
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Years
He Who Would Lay Hands Upon Us Will Encounter Thorns And Barbs!
Hands
Thorns
Encounters
I Had Excellent Opportunity To Intoxicate Myself With The Solemn Splendor Of The Brilliant Church Festivals. As Was Only Natural, The Abbot Seemed To Me, As The Village Priest Had Once Seemed To My Father, The Highest And Most Desirable Ideal.
Religious
Father
Opportunity
We Are All Proud That Through God's Powerful Aid, We Have Become Once More True Germans
Powerful
Military
Proud
When The German People Trusting To The Promises Made By President Wilson In His Fourteen Points, Laid Down Their Arms In November 1918, A Fateful Struggle Thereby Came To An End For Which Perhaps Individual Statesmen, But Certainly Not The Peoples Themselves Could Be Held Responsible. The German Nation Put Up Such An Heroic Fight Because It Was Sincere In Its Conviction That It Had Been Wrongfully Attacked And Was Therefore Justified In Fighting. The Peace Treaty Of Versailles Did Not Seem To Be For The Purpose Of Restoring Peace To Mankind, But Rather To Perpetuate Hatred.
Struggle
Fighting
People
Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual.
Philosophy
Community
Political
I Am Convinced That I Am Acting As The Agent Of Our Almighty Creator. By Fighting The Jews, I Am Doing The Lord's Work.
Fighting
Religion
Atheism
The Purpose Of Social Work Should Not Be To Distribute Favours, But To Restore Rights.
Rights
Purpose
Favour
Columbus's Eggs Lie Around By The Hundreds Of Thousands, But Columbuses Are Met With Less Frequency.
Lying
Eggs
Individuality
I Am Asking Of No Man More Than I Myself Was Ready Throughout Four Years To Do
War
Men
Years
A Single Blow Must Destroy The Enemy... Without Regard Of Losses... A Gigantic All-destroying Blow.
Military
Loss
Blow
The State Is A Means To An End. Its End Lies In The Preservation And Advancement Of A Community Of Physically And Psychically Homogenous Creatures.
Lying
Mean
Community
Our Object Must Be To Bring Our Territory Into Harmony With The Numbers Of Our Population.
Numbers
Population
Territory
If You Tell A Big Enough Lie And Tell It Frequently Enough, It Will Be Believed.
Truth
Lying
Liars
The Very First Essential For Success Is A Perpetually Constant And Regular Employment Of Violence.
Aquariums
Evil
Essentials
Today I Will Once More Be A Prophet. If The International Jewish Financiers, Inside And Outside Europe, Succeed In Plunging The Nations Once More Into A World War, Then The Result Will Not Be The Bolshevisation Of The Earth, And Thus The Victory Of Jewry, But The Annihilation Of The Jewish Race In Europe!
War
Race
Europe
We Stand At The End Of The Age Of Reason. A New Era Of The Magical Explanation Of The World Is Rising.
Scary
Age
Rising
The Moment In Paris Where I Saluted Napoleon's Tomb Was One Of The Proudest Of My Life.
Paris
Moments
Tombs
Remain Strong In Your Faith, As You Were In Former Years. In This Faith, In Its Close-knit Unity Our People To-day Goes Straight Forward On Its Way And No Power On Earth Will Avail To Stop It.
Strong
Years
People
Today Christians... Stand At The Head Of Germany... We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit.
Christian
Faith Religion
Germany
Czechoslovakia Provided Soviet Russia With Landing Fields For Aircraft, Thereby Increasing The Threat Against Germany.
Russia
Germany
Fields
Nature Knows No Political Boundaries. She Puts Living Creatures On This Globe And Watches The Free Play Of Forces. She Then Confers The Master's Right On Her Favourite Child, The Strongest In Courage And Industry ... The Stronger Must Dominate And Not Blend With The Weaker, Thus Sacrificing His Own Greatness. Only The Born Weakling Can View This As Cruel.
Nature
Children
Sacrifice
The State Must Declare The Child To Be The Most Precious Treasure Of The People. As Long As The Government Is Perceived As Working For The Benefit Of The Children, The People Will Happily Endure Almost Any Curtailment Of Liberty And Almost Any Deprivation.
Children
Government
Long
The Victor Will Never Be Asked If He Told The Truth.
Fear
Truth
Tyrants
The Fact That, With Time, This League [of Nations]-which Was Presumably Designed By Its Founders To Exist For All Eternity-cannot Be Coupled With A Treaty The Short Term Of Which Is Inherent In Its Own Weaknesses And Impracticabilities, Is A Point Which Can Perhaps Be Contested By Today's Interested Parties, But Which Will One Day Be Deemed A Matter Of Course In History.
Party
League
One Day
Anyone Who Dares To Lay Hands On The Highest Image Of The Lord Commits Sacrilege Against The Benevolent Creator Of This Miracle And Contributes To The Expulsion From Paradise.
Religious
Hands
Miracle
I Can Not Be Mistaken - What I Say And Do Is Historical.i Follow My Life With The Precision And Security Of A Sleep Walker
Sleep
Historical
Precision
Germany Has Solemnly Recognized And Guaranteed France Her Frontiers As Determined After The Saar Plebiscite... We Thereby Finally Renounced All Claims To Alsace-lorraine, A Land For Which We Have Fought Two Great Wars.
War
Land
Two
Capitalism And Bolshevism Are The Two Sides Of The Same International Jewish Coin.
Two Sides
Coins
Capitalism
The Grossly Impudent Lie Always Leaves Traces Behind It, Even After It Has Been Nailed Down.
Lying
Media
Mein Kampf
There Is Something Very Unhealthy About Christianity.
Christianity
Unhealthy
I Began To Study Again, And Now For The First Time Really Achieved An Understanding Of The Content Of The Jew Karl Marx's Life Effort. Only Now Did His Capital Become Really Intelligible To Me, And Also The Struggle Of The Social Democracy Against The National Economy, Which Aims Only To Prepare The Ground For The Domination Of Truly International Finance And Stock Exchange Capital.
Struggle
Effort
Understanding
I Saw My Enemies In Munich, And They Are Worms.
War
Enemy
World
We Have To Put A Stop To The Idea That It Is A Part Of Everybody's Civil Rights To Say Whatever He Pleases.
Rights
Ideas
Please
It Doesn't Dawn On This Depraved Bourgeois World That This Is Positively A Sin Against All Reason; That It Is Criminal Lunacy To Keep On Drilling A Born Half-ape Until People Think They Have Made A Lawyer Out Of Him, While Millions Of Members Of The Highest Culture- Race Must Remain In Entirely Unworthy Positions; That It Is A Sin Against The Will Of The Eternal Creator If His Most Gifted Beings By The Hundreds And Hundreds Of Thousands Are Allowed To Degenerate In The Present Proletarian Morass, While Hottentots And Zulu Kaffirs Are Trained For Intellectual Professions.
Thinking
Race
People
The National Socialist State Refuses To Admit Female Labour In Factories Merely Because Such Labour Is Cheap. There Is, Of Course, A Certain Amount Of Industrial Work Which Can Only Be Performed By Women, But An Essential Condition Is That This Sort Of Work Should Not Be Injurious To Health.
Essentials
Female
Factories
I Will Reflect A Thousand Times Over Before I Allow The German Volk To Become Entangled In Agreements Whose Consequences Are Not Readily Evident.
Agreement
Thousand
Evident
But It Would Be Absolutely Mistaken To Regard A Wealth Of Theoretical Knowledge As Characteristic Proof For The Qualities And Abilities Of A Leader.
Education
Science
Leader
No More Than A Famous Master Can Be Replaced And Another Take Over The Completion Of The Half-finished Painting He Has Left Behind Can The Great Poet And Thinker, The Great Statesman And The Great Soldier, Be Replaced. For Their Activity Lies Always In The Province Of Art. It Is Not Mechanically Trained But Inborn By God's Grace.
Art
Lying
Grace
If You Dont Like A Rule... Just Follow It.. Reach On The Top.. And Change The Rule
Ifs
Nearly All Bolshevist Agitators In Germany And Elsewhere Were Jews.
Germany
Jew
Elsewhere
To Attain Our Aim We Should Stop At Nothing Even If We Must Join Forces With The Devil.
Devil
Should
Force
Today Our Achievements Are So Vast That The Whole World Has Become Interested In Them.
Achievement
World
Today
In The Course Of History No People Have Ever Been Given Freedom Like A Present, And If Freedom Did Not Cost Anything Than No People Would Ever Keep It! Freedom Has A High Price, And Men Must Ever Struggle To Preserve It.
Struggle
Men
People
[w]e Will Do What We Like With The Bourgeoisie. ... We Give The Orders; They Do What They Are Told. Any Resistance Will Be Broken Ruthlessly.
Order
Broken
Giving
How Fortunate For Governments That The People They Administer Don't Think.
Thinking
Government
People
The Purpose Of Propaganda Is Not To Provide Interesting Distraction For Blasé Young Gentlemen, But To Convince... The Masses. But The Masses Are Slow Moving, And They Always Require A Certain Time Before They Are Ready Even To Notice A Thing, And Only After The Simplest Ideas Are Repeated Thousands Of Times Will The Masses Finally Remember Them.
Moving
Media
Ideas
All Advertising, Whether It Lies In The Field Of Business Or Of Politics, Will Carry Success By Continuity And Regular Uniformity Of Application.
Trust
Betrayal
Lying
Germany Suffered Most As A Consequence Of This Peace Treaty And The General Insecurity Which Was Bound To Arise From It. The Unemployment Figure Rose To A Third Of The Number Usually Employed In The Nation, Which Means, However, That By Counting The Families Of The Unemployed As Well There Were 26 Million People In Germany Out Of A Population Of 65 Millions Faced By An Absolutely Hopeless Future.
Mean
Numbers
Rose
All Work Which Is Necessary Ennobles Him Who Performs It. Only One Thing Is Shameful - To Contribute Nothing To The Community.
Community
Shameful
One Thing
The Majority Can Never Replace The Man
Military
Men
Majority
The Sin Against Blood And Race Is The Hereditary Sin In This World And It Brings Disaster On Every Nation That Commits It.
Race
Blood
World
That This Is Possible May Not Be Denied In A World Where Hundreds And Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Voluntarily Submit To Celibacy, Obligated And Bound By Nothing Except The Injunction Of The Church. Should The Same Renunciation Not Be Possible If This Injunction Is Replaced By The Admonition Finally To Put An End To The Constant And Continuous Original Sin Of Racial Poisoning, And To Give The Almighty Creator Beings Such As He Himself Created?
Religious
People
Giving
What Is America But Beauty Queens, Millionaires, Stupid Records And Hollywood?
Queens
Stupid
America
I Am Quite Sure That Very Few Of The So-called Reds In Spain Were Really Communists. We Were Badly Deceived, For, Had I Known The Real State Of Affairs, I Would Never Have Allowed Our Aircraft To Bombard And Destroy A Starving Population And At The Same Time Re-establish The Spanish Clergy In All Their Horrible Privileges. (10th February 1945)
Real
Spain
Population
I Believe That Those Who Knew Me [in My Youth] Took Me For An Eccentric.
Believe
Eccentric
Youth
Germany Must Either Be A World Power Or There Will Be No Germany
War
Germany
World
But If Out Of Smugness, Or Even Cowardice, This Battle Is Not Fought To Its End, Then Take A Look At The Peoples Five Hundred Years From Now. I Think You Will Find But Few Images Of God, Unless You Want To Profane The Almighty.
Religious
Thinking
Years
I Have Been Europe's Last Hope. She Proved Incapable Of Refashioning Herself By Means Of Voluntary Reform. She Showed Herself Impervious To Charm And Persuasion. To Take Her I Had To Use Violence. (26th February)
Mean
Europe
Reform
All Propaganda Must Be Popular And Its Intellectual Level Must Be Adjusted To The Most Limited Intelligence Among Those It Is Addressed To.
Intellectual
Mein Kampf
Levels
Y Feelings As A Christian Points Me To My Lord And Savior As A Fighter. It Points Me To The Man Who Once In Loneliness, Surrounded By A Few Followers, Recognized These Jews For What They Were And Summoned Men To Fight Against Them And Who, God's Truth! Was Greatest Not As A Sufferer But As A Fighter. In Boundless Love As A Christian And As A Man I Read Through The Passage Which Tells Us How The Lord At Last Rose In His Might And Seized The Scourge To Drive Out Of The Temple The Brood Of Vipers And Adders.
Christian
Religious
Loneliness
Nudity Is Undignified And An Error Of Taste
Errors
Taste
Nudity
Reading Is Not An End To Itself, But A Means To An End.
Reading
Mean
Mein Kampf
Imbued With The Desire To Secure For The German People The Great Religious, Moral, And Cultural Values Rooted In The Two Christian Confessions, We Have Abolished The Political Organizations But Strengthened The Religious Institutions.
Christian
Religious
Organization
Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward, Let Us Never Forget The Duty Which We Have Taken Upon Us.... We Are All Proud That Through God's Powerful Aid We Have Become Once More True Germans.
Powerful
Taken
Play
Our Strategy Is To Destroy The Enemy From Within, To Conquer Him Through Himself.
Military
Enemy
Dictator
Terrorism Is The Best Political Weapon For Nothing Drives People Harder Than A Fear Of Sudden Death.
People
History
Political
The Leader Of Genius Must Have The Ability To Make Different Opponents Appear As If They Belonged To One Category.
Military
Leader
Different
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

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Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


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Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


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Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


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5.2. Lack of Analysis

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5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

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6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


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Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


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Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


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Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



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Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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